Convoy HX 76 - warsailors.com (original) (raw)

CONVOY HX 76 (Will be updated - please compare with A. Hague's listing for this convoy at ships in all HX convoys. See also HX escorts).

Convoy HX 76 Cruising Order
Departed Halifax on Sept. 26-1940 and arrived Liverpool on Oct. 10 (Arnold Hague agrees with 38 ships).

Received, with thanks, from Roger Griffiths (his source: Public Records Office, Kew).
Details on Bermuda portion were received from Tony Cooper (same source).

Further details have been added with the help of:
"The Allied Convoy System", Arnold Hague
"Axis Submarine Successes of World War Two", Jürgen Rohwer
"The World's Merchant Fleets 1939", R. W. Jordan.

B = Ships joining from Bermuda (sailed Sept. 24)

Br=British, Norw=Norwegian, Gr=Greek, Du=Dutch, Da=Danish, Bel=Belgian, Po=Polish.
s=sunk, † = dead

11
Clydebank
Methil
(Br)

21
Langleebrook
Methil
(Br)

31
Tielbank
Methil
(Br)

41 B
Sutlej
general
Liverpool
(Br)

51
Baltrover
Liverpool
(Br)

61
Geddington Court
Liverpool
(Br)

71
Hadleigh
Liverpool
(Br)

81
Beechwood
Milford for
Swansea
(Br)

91
Harpathian
Barry
(Br)

12
Jupiter
London
(Du?)

22
Kongsgaard
Clyde
(Norw)

32 B
Adula
Manchester
(Br)

42
Dimitrios
Inglessis
Mersey
(Gr)

52
Lida
Liverpool
(Po)

62
Pilar de Larrinaga
Clyde
(Br)

72
Gyda
Manchester
Da **

82
Dagfred
Barry
(Norw)

92
Emmaplein
Milford
(Du)

13
Baron Stranraer
West Hartlepool
(Br)

23 B
Queen Adelaide
wheat
Clyde
(Br)

33 B
Port Hardy
refrig.
Clyde
(Br)

43
Horn Shell
Clyde
(Br)

53
Parthenia
Clyde
(Br)

63
Harberton
Clyde
(Br)

73 B
Rancher
steel - general
Liverpool
(Br)

83 B
Confield *
metal - wheat - lumber
Barry
s - 1†
(Br)

93
Hada County
Barry
(Norw)

14
Glenbank
Methil
(Br)

24
Bretwalda
Methil
(Br)

34
Ramsay
Methil
(Br)

44
Hilda Knudsen
Clyde
(Norw)

54
Idefjord
Clyde
(Norw)

64
Prinses Maria Pia
Liverpool
(Bel **)

74 B
Nailsea Meadow
lumber
Cardiff
(Br)

84
Silverlarch *
Belfast
(Br)

94
Milcrest *
Belfast
(Br)

45
Alnmoor *
Clyde
(Br)

85
British General *
Milford
(Br)

Also in the Bermuda portion, but did not join HX portion ("to be sent to Halifax to await orders"):
Ferncastle and Mosli (both Norw - it looks like Mosli joined, but returned to Halifax), G. S. Walden (see HX 83), San Demetrio (see HX 84), and San Ernesto.
The following were scheduled, but did not sail:
Comedian, Languedoc (both said to have joined HX 77), Shirvan and Standella (both listed in HX 78).
Mosli, Queen Adelaide and Shirvan had been cancelled from HX 75.

Lida and Pilar de Larrinaga had been cancelled from Convoy SC 6 and Hollinside, sailing in that convoy, is said to have come from HX 76.